PalmOS no more? :(

Sridhar: I could always sell you my incredibly flawed and limited Palm m130 with partially defective color display (Palm had a recall on them that really didn't give you a working m130 back without paying out the ass for the value of 2 of them... and it would still have the same somewhat flawed display of 50-something thousand colors instead of the proper 64k, amazing what those marketing idiots did). Sorry, had to have a laugh. Also, there used to be a joke/image out there about M$: The next new future: "Windows CE_Me_NT: dumb as a brick and goes about as fast." My younger brother got bored one day and did research on reducing the size of Win98 (he does naughty things like program and reverse engineer when he gets bored). He found that if you remove a good chink of the B.S. in Win98SE, you could have a working graphical OS in the footprint of about 48MB, full installation. Obviously, after he tinkered with the research and all, the drive was immediately blanked entirely for legality sake, etc. Just shows how much garbage there really is in there if the newer XP takes about what- 1GB for fully loaded installation? It probably only truly needs (estimating fairly) about 256MB for something that much more complex and graphical. Final thing: looking online for replacement Palm batteries confirms the poor planning and intent on selling those damned things. $30-40.00 US plus shipping for a replacement m130 battery via 3rd party (Palm doesn't even offer it and their tech-help confirmed that)! For a unit only 3-4 years old, that is about double what the unit goes for used, in good to excellent condition, on ebay. -John At 03:01 PM 9/27/2005, you wrote: -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.7/112 - Release Date: 9/26/2005